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Nishank may order CBI probe

DEHRA DUN: Inspector-General of Police (Garhwal Range) M. A. Ganapathy asserted on Monday that the CB-CID is conducting an impartial probe into the version of the local police as well as the allegations made by the family of 23-year-old MBA graduate Ranbir Singh of Ghaziabad who was shot dead in an alleged police encounter in Raipur forest here this past Friday.

Expressing dismay that he had been misunderstood by a section of the media as toeing the line of the local police, Mr. Ganapathy said the CID was an independent body and would carry out its job professionally. “It was we who called for a CID probe into the sensitive matter to ensure transparency,” he said.

Meanwhile, Ranbir’s father Ravinder Singh met Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Monday and sought action against two Deputy Superintendents of Police for their role in the alleged encounter as they could destroy or manipulate evidence in the case. “The Chief Minister has assured that he will order a CBI probe if we are not satisfied with the CID investigations,” Mr. Ravinder Singh said

Lawyers in Dehra Dun observed a day’s strike on Monday deploring the incident and demanding arrest of the police officers involved and a CBI probe into the incident.

The Uttarakhand Government has already attached the Dehra Dun Senior Superintendent of Police to the Headquarters and sent half a dozen junior officers alleged to be involved in the encounter to the police lines. Meanwhile, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Mahendra Singh Tikait has threatened to launch a massive agitation including blockage of all roads leading out of Uttarakhand if the case is not handed over to the CBI and the victim’s family given at least Rs.30 lakh as compensation.

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